Improvement in bee-hives



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" C'UsrAvns ADoLPHUs BROWN AND rRANCis ADAMS MCCALLEN. or

aUssnLLvILLn, KENTUCKY.

Letters Patent No. 110,894, dated January 1o, 1871.

IM PROVEMENT IN BEE-HIVES'.

The Schedule referred to In these Letters Patent and making of i the sante.

We, GUsTAvus ADoLPHUs Bao-WN and FRANCIS ADAMS MC GALLEN, of Russellville, in the county of Logan and State of Kentucky, have invented certain Improvements infBee-Hives, of whiclr'the followingis a specification.

Figure l is a vertical section, showing the hingedv platform raised, and'one of the brood-frames resting upon it. Figure 2 is a front view of the. open hive.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in the drawing.4 v U In this-invention an improved platform for the snppoit of the brood frames whendrawu out is employed; and in connect-ion therewith the hivel combines several other improvements in construction, as hereinafter described.

In the drawing- A is the body of the hive, resting on legs B B, and provided with a removable sliding cover, G, and a iront side or door, which slides. vertically inv grooves (l (l.

,v rlhe interior ofthe hive is separated into two compartments F G,hy means of a horizontal partition, E, through which is a passage, e, which may he opened or closed without openingthe hive, by'means of a sliding valve, V, and rod', V'.

' The tloo'r of the lower apartment is a foramiuated plate, H, under which is the vmoth-trap I, theent-i'ances to which, i t', are'shown on each side ot' the'hive.

J Ais the passage by -which the bees enter and leave the apartment G, its entrance being on thesfrout side of the hive, at. a distance from the entrance to the moth-trap, and it being seven or eight inches in length, so that if any moths attempt to enter the hive through it they will almost inevitably be'destroyed by the bees -before they reach the end of the passage. Another object in elougating the passage is to bring its open end at as great a distance from the honey as possible,

so that the rn'oths will prefer the nearer openings 'i t. K K are the brood-frames, resting upon a square supporting-frame, K', which slides in and out upon a track, L.

M is a platform hinged to the hive A, and so coustructed and arranged that when raised to a hori- :notches cut into the front side of the hive.

the legs are removed iiom the notches the platformA zout-al position it forms a continuation of the track L, sothat the frame K', and the` brood-frames K K snpported upon it, can be easily drawn out of the hive, as represented in iig. l.

m m are two pivoted legs which support the platform Mwhen drawn out, their lower ends resting in When drops to a vertical pcsitiou,'occupying no room, and not injuring the appearance of the hive.

In the upper apartment F are arranged the-frames simply opening the valve V, and filling with-smoke the apartment to be cleared.

The. bees having left this room and assembled in the other, thev valveican be closed and'the empty apartment opened for the removal of the houeyr for any otherpurpose.

The smoke may be` blown in through the veuti laters, or introduced in any other way.

Having thus descrihedour invention, What we claim as new therein, and desire to secure lby Letters Patent, is l y y 1. The hinged platform M, and supportsm m', when constructed so as to form an extension ofthe track L and support the drawn-out frames, substautially'as described.

'2.,'lhe, moth-trap I having side entrances it, the perforated or gauze plate H, and bee-entrance J,'ar ranged with relation to each other and the ooinpartment G of the hive, as .hcrein shown and described, for the purposes specified. Y v

GUSTAVUS A..BROWN. fn. s.] FRANCIS A.MCUALLEN. [las] Witnesses:

G. C. ROBERTS, HENRY W. Goonies. 

